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Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by jks »

alin23 wrote: post #34
zestyping wrote: post #16

Countless person-years of engineering effort, and Spotlight is still mostly useless. All I want is to hit Command-F to quickly search the filenames in the current folder (not start a sluggish scan of my entire hard disk). There used to be workarounds for this, but then they removed "Find by Name..." from Finder just to make our lives harder. Does anyone know a workable alternative?

I still wish for something like Everything on Windows ( https://www.voidtools.com/ ) I wrote my own solution using fd + sqlite + fzf but it's nowhere as fast as Everything, and it also requires me to focus the Terminal to use it.

Happy user of Finda here: https://keminglabs.com/finda/

Don't know if it works on Ventura, not upgrading until I know.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

behnamoh wrote: post #83

> The Weather and Clock apps come to Mac with all of the features users know and love from iPhone, and do things like check local forecasts, create alarms, set timers, and more. And yet there is no Apple weather app for iPad!

What? They just launched Apple Weather for iPad alongside this.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by anigbrowl »

orpheansodality wrote: post #53
chongli wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Finder -> Preferences -> Advanced. When performing a search: Search the current folder

wow - how is this not the default? It's always the behavior that I expect to happen, and I'm pretty much always surprised and disappointed when it does a global search instead.

Windows also defaults to full text file searches instead of filenames, which is super annoying when you have thousands upon thousands of documents. It's often faster to open a terminal window, type 'dir search string and open the file from the terminal.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by eastbound »

jedberg wrote: post #72
galoisscobi wrote: post #9

I’m usually excited about macOS releases but this one is an underwhelming update and don’t see any reason to update any time soon. Stage manager seems like a half measure to introduce better window management in macOS and it doesn’t help that it doesn’t support a keyboard only workflow, from what I can tell from the demos. Coming from i3wm, I found Yabai to be an excellent keyboard-first window manager. I do wish som…

If they put a bunch of new features in the OS, everyone complains, "Why don't they focus on stability!!" If they focus on stability, everyone says, "Not enough new features to be worth the upgrade". I guess no one can be happy. Or they expect a ton of new instantly stable features...

Why can’t we have no features AND unstability? If the rumor spreads that Apple doesn’t succeed to fine enough OS-level programmers, it’s precisely because all of usability + stability + innovation are going down at the same time. Gone are the days where you’d expect Apple to launch a new APFS, encryption, or a general SSO solution for employees across all Apple devices.

Which is sorely needed.

Because honestly I’m afraid of paying $12 to $24 per device per employee and per month for an SSO+MDM solution that would make me depend on a dodgy Windows-style UI (Jamf) or worse, all my employees’ ability to login would depend on Okta.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by satysin »

sramsay wrote: post #11

Ventura and iPadOS 16 dropped (along with iOS 16.1), but not Xcode 14.1 (which is still RC). I don't recall them ever not releasing Xcode at the same time as an OS update.

The RC will most likely be promoted to release within the next 24 hours like with Xcode 14 and 14.0.1

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by samuelstros »

ngrilly wrote: post #63

To switch to another window, we already had Command-Tab, Mission Control, Expose (now part of Mission Control if I understand correctly), and also clicking on the icons in the Dock. And now we have Stage Manager. I had to use Windows 10 as my main workstation for a few weeks at work, and I'm starting to think windows management is – perhaps – one of the rare things Windows does better than macOS. But of course I shou…

I concluded that Windows has a better window management too. It is no coincidence that Mac users have hundreds of windows open while Windows users stay relatively organized.

I tried out uBar for Mac OS https://ubarapp.com/. Too buggy though.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by alin23 »

cube2222 wrote: post #82
alin23 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything uses NTFS journaling as far as I know. I actually solved that by using the native macOS fsevents API which can watch the whole filesystem for changes, and I can instantly update the SQLite db I use for the index through that. The problem is actually enumerating and searching the whole database, that's the slow part. Right now I have over 5 million rows in it and passing the SELECT results to fzf is the slo…

The fsevents part is interesting, didn't know that! To your point regarding the slowness - in that case it's not really acting as an index though, is it, if you're scanning the whole list and passing it to fzf? A proper fuzzy text search index (I think elastic and similar engines have these built-in) should yield orders of magnitude better performance.

Yes, you're right. I did try Meilisearch for this but I wanted close-to-instant Smith-Waterman fuzzy searching which is why I settled on FZF.

In the end I might have to reimplement that in Swift with an always cached index and native Spotlight like search bar to really make this as easy to use as I want.

It's not practical to reach for the browser or Terminal to do this search.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by anigbrowl »

neilv wrote: post #78

The Mac (historically being known for desktop publishing) should know that Ventura was someone else's brand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Ventura

It's OK to double up trademarked brands as long as it's in a different market. But you have to pretend to be upset about it in court to avoid claims that you have abandoned your trademark, which is why Apple sues every company with a name like 'Apple fruit company'.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by umutcankus »

alwillis wrote: post #81
ezfe wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm updating for these features: better iMessage (editing / unsending / mark as unread), Shared iCloud Photo Library, duplicate detection in Photos, Continuity Camera, Weather app, multi-stop Maps routing

Continuity Camera I’ve been on the betas all summer; Continuity Camera is probably the most Apple-like feature in Ventura. It seems almost magical in how it “just works”.

I don't understand why it is not avaliable for iPad. Usually, I am using my macbook lid closed and I have an iPad in my desk. It would be very good to use its camera and mics for video calls.
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